Carmen Ariza

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Carmen Ariza, by Charles Francis Stocking This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Carmen Ariza Author: Charles Francis Stocking Release Date: October 24, 2009 [EBook #30312] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CARMEN ARIZA *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net In the name of the Church he would serve these humble people. ––Book 2, Page 77. CARMEN ARIZA BY CHARLES FRANCIS STOCKING, E. M. Author of THE DIARY OF JEAN EVARTS, THE MAYOR OF FILBERT, Etc. CHICAGO THE MAESTRO CO. 1921 COPYRIGHT 1915 BY CHARLES FRANCIS STOCKING ISSUED JANUARY 1916 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TWENTY-FIFTH EDITION PRINTED IN U. S. A. CARMEN ARIZA BOOK 1 Doth this offend you?––the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. ––Jesus. 3CARMEN ARIZA CHAPTER 1 The tropical sun mounted the rim of the golden Caribbean, quivered for a moment like a fledgeling preening its wings for flight, then launched forth boldly into the vault of heaven, shattering the lowering vapors of night into a myriad fleecy clouds of every form and color, and driving them before it into the abysmal blue above.